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What do you call it when you ride to a spooky house in the middle of the night and accidently find a device that allows you to talk to animals, and then get kidnapped twice just to become a laboratory experiment, and finally join forces with FBI Agent Scott Tracker to help rescue an entire town? You call it a day in the life of an eleven-year-old boy named Ben Meyer who reads to many detective adventure stories, doesn't get along with his dad, and isn't thrilled about any of his teachers at school. His only saving grace is his neighbor's pet rabbit whose name is Ricky. He's furry, cuddly, warm...

PARENTING is a divine responsibility which needs to be taken with all seriousness. But how much do you love your children? Sadly, most parents know little to none of the things that are directly impacting the life of their children negatively. How do we expect to give what we do not have? Why I Know That You Do Not Love Your Children! Reveals un-told truths about the elements of this civilized and digitalized world we all find ourselves as well as the profound effect these are having on the overall well-being of our children. IF you're interested in raising children that would grow up to ...

When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to aspire to and book burnings become rife. The publishing industry is left hemorrhaging credibility and verges on collapse. But its recovery not a matter of removing said books, or even destroying them, the same must be done to the mind responsible. Thomas may be the worst writer to have ever lived, but if he's not careful, he won't be doing much of that, either. Written with little regard for spelling, punctuation or even words, this Sortabiography is the ...

Love is connecting with the man in the maroon Bonneville who killed your Big Naked Guy. Love is responding to grief by inviting the Devil into your home. Love is finding yourself sitting Zen in an Elk's Lodge. Love is learning your mom is boinking a dude in a squirrel costume. The quirky characters in Cain't Do Nothing with Love get themselves in the worst pickles, thanks to love . . . can love get them out? Join them as they travel the wandering, unpredictable path of love. Nine of the fourteen stories in Cain't Do Nothing with Love have been previously published in literary journals, such as...

In The Astreya Trilogy, Book 2: The Men of the Sea, Astreya learns from his grandfather Oron how to control his power over the shipstones aboard the great ship Cygnus. He still yearns for Lindey, left on shore against her will. Trying to purge a nagging guilt, Roaring Jack sails the Mollie south again, and this time Astreya’s friend Cam is a stowaway. Astreya’s cousin Adramin tries to make Astreya fail. At The City of the Sea, the lawful meeting place of the great ships, family politics turn violent, with tragic consequences. Astreya must hurry to protect Lindey from his marauding uncle ...

Traumatized veterans are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychiatric disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war or other intolerable experiences such as military sexual assault? What is a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan argues that the standard treatment of therapy and drugs is often actually harmful. It adds to veterans' burdens by making them believe wrongly ...

Alan joins his brother Dan's private investigation agency in the hopes of reconnecting with his older sibling. Although he doesn't know the first thing about private investigation and he's hopeless with a gun, Dan convinces him to help him out on a covert mission for Dan's former commanding officer. But the mission is far more dangerous than either brother realizes. The officer and his soldiers are seeking to recover an insidious device used to manipulate Earth's history. Humanity is under attack...and doesn't even realize it. Alan and Dan are ill-equipped to face this invisible invasion...but...

Armed with his father's knife, a riddling notebook, and a bracelet with a green stone, Astreya sails south with an adventurous fisherman, hoping that in the world beyond, he can find his father and discover the mystery of his enigmatic gifts. They voyage to a village where all the inhabitants have met a grisly end, and fearing this may be the work of the legendary sailors cursed to sail forever, they dare the open ocean. The journey is dangerous, and Astreya must navigate through betrayal and an escape from slavery before he finds companions he can learn to trust: Gar, an itinerant painter, ...

In a queer-normative future that isn’t all rainbows and sparkles, the justice you receive depends on your job – assuming you can get it at all. Enter vigilante detective Andersson Dexter, whose beat covers both the physical world and the online universe Marionette City. Helping people who have nowhere else to turn, he’s making the worlds better one client at a time, but is it enough? The Andersson Dexter Investigations is a four-book cyberpunk detective series by Nebula Award finalist M. Darusha Wehm.

Duncan Marks is just like you -- sick and tired of Christmas before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Spirit of the Season takes him on a journey that tests his resolve... and upon which Christmas itself may rise or fall.

The world isn't kind to dreamers. Like any boy of the radio era, Leonard Allen dreamed of hitting big in New York and Hollywood; to write or host that one big show that would make everyone notice. Even after he had his chance at both, that dream still burns inside him. He's always been able to spark the divine somewhere in his work. And he's been noticed. He doesn't know the lengths people will go to take advantage of such gifts. So when the mysterious David Lewis asked him finish his classic radio drama "After Dark" after a half-century from a pirate radio station in a New England lighthouse,...